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...making monkeys of themselves last week at Pennsylvania State College. They were thrashing about for the National Amateur Athletic Union gymnastic titles. For some, the stakes were bigger: eight berths each on the men's & women's 1952 Olympic teams. The men's Olympic events demand all-round agility on 1) a single horizontal bar, 2) two parallel bars, 3) a side horse, 4) a long horse, 5) a pair of suspended rings. The sixth event: free calisthenics, i.e., without hand apparatus...
...Penn State meet, a Philadelphia schoolteacher, 26-year-old Bob Stout, upset the Bronx Turners' favored Edward Scrobe, to take the all-round title and win the No. 1 Olympic berth on the men's team. A fellow member of Stout's Philadelphia club, wiry Housewife Clara Schroth Lomady, 31, won the all-round honors for women for the fourth year, clinched her No. 1 Olympic spot for the second time...
...Progressive" and "practical" got the most foreign votes as the outstanding U.S. characteristics. But 52% of the English called Americans "conceited" and 46% of Frenchmen called them "domineering." Only 34% of Frenchmen (who have received $2.5 billion in U.S. postwar aid) called the U.S. "generous." The Russians got it all-round for being "cruel," "backward" and "domineering," and only a spot of praise as "hard-working...
...Rethbergs took a solid stance, opened their golden throats, and sang. Operagoers still demand, and get, fine voices, but most of them have now been conditioned by Broadway and Hollywood to demand something more: good-looking, cleanly directed and well-rehearsed casts. So the Met scouts keep hunting for all-round performers. Some of their latest diva-debutantes...
...Enough. Princeton's director of admissions recalls his first meeting with the 155-lb. youngster who was to write a new chapter of Princeton football history: "Kazmaier had been recommended as an all-round high school athlete, and I didn't know what to think when I saw that peanut walk in." He wrote a kindly comment on Dick's card: "Probably not big enough for college athletics." But Princeton was glad to have Kazmaier: it was interested in him for other reasons...